Photograph
from
Dr.
Theodore
P.Cleveland
AN APOLLO O.F TAHITI IN LIVING BRONZE
The Tahitian's favorite abode is a bamboo hut, preferably built; in a grove of palms. When the French
administration,
formilitary
reasons,
compelled residents in the vicinity of Papeete to build in the open, with some regularity with regard tostreets,
those
affected
sulked
and
gradually
returned to their old haunts. Now, when the native copra magnate feels his social position demands some
display,
heoften
builds
intheEuropean
fashion, but lives in a "Robinson Crusoe" hut of this type near by.'
The walls are bamboo sticks, the rafters
hibiscus,
and
pandanus
leaves
form
the roofing. The entire structure is built with the idea not of keeping the rain out, but of letting in the
breezes.